[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Dec 6 06:00:12 CET 2010

Dale Huckeby a écrit :
+>
+> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>
+>> the english language is pretty rich; and i suspect there are quite a
+>> few words
+>> that could convey the correct meaning without the word being too
+>> difficult.
+>>
+>> otoh, there is also the fact that "free" or "core" don't really convey
+>> the
+>> correct meaning at all either and could be quite dubious.
+>>
+>> patented would be more correct, but i don't wanna call it that,
+>> because then
+>> mageia would be sued by patent-lawyers all over the world. don't get
+>> me wrong,
+>> it wouldn't be illegal, but it would just be too timeconsuming...
+>>
+>> imho, we should have a simple not too difficult word that somehow
+>> shows a bit
+>> about the nature of the contents in it, while still being vague enough.
+>
+> Okay, short words: iffy, chancy, dicey, knotty, clouded, foggy, hazy,
+> unclear, contro (for controversial),
+> prob (for problematic), equiv (for equivocal), irreg (for irregular). I
+> like iffy best. It's short, it's
+> informal, its meaning is clear, yet it's not too narrow.
+>
+> Dale Huckeby
+>
+>
+great idea, abreviations !
+contro, irreg, and equiv are abreviations for words that don't question 
+the quality.
+I like contro and irreg best.
+We can always give the full word in our documentation which explains the 
+purpose of each repository.
+That would work.
+
+(BTW, when I think about it, iffy could be considered to refer to 
+quality - but it's still way better than tainted.)
+
+Of course, there should be lots of other abreviations to choose from, if 
+collectively we don't like one of these.
+
+- André
+